Carrier route record

OHDFW→TUL

PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Tulsa

Flights: 176
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 6%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on DFW to TUL lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 176 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 818 at 84.2% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on DFW to TUL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

78.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 168 completed flights

Avg delay

72 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.55%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

72.3%

Every carrier on DFW to TUL, 2,845 flights

These figures cover 176 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on DFW to TUL

PSA flew 176 of the 2,845 flights on DFW to TUL, about 6% of it. Its 78.0% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 87.3% to American at 63.8%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 84.2% of the time; American Airlines manages 63.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,639 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to TUL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	212	87.3%	74 min	2.36%	A
Envoy Air	818	84.2%	46 min	3.06%	B−
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	176	78.0%	72 min	4.55%	B−
American Airlines	1,639	63.8%	82 min	3.42%	D−

American Airlines cancels 3.4% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

Departure window

When PSA runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 176 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am9 flights—
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm134 flights78.5%
5pm–8pm33 flights76.7%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 2pm–5pm window is the strongest at 78.5% on time. The full set of windows spans 2 points.

Across the year

PSA on DFW to TUL through the year

Jul–Sep 202592 flights77.8%
Oct–Dec 202538 flights86.1%
Jan–Mar 202640 flights72.2%
Apr–Jun 20266 flights—

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 78.0% on time across 176 flights.

PSA on DFW to TUL did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 86.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 72.2%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 59 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 2,660 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
64%
Carrier
21%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
5%

64% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 2,660 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 2,660 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 4.55%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 237 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 69.5% on time across 176 flights, 9 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 9 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 176 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking PSA on DFW to TUL

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.55% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 168 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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